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When you are relocating to a Charlottesville Virginia horse farm there are many things that you want to know about the area.

 Clients often want to know if this particular Virginia horse farm is in the best school district.  Or they might ask what kind of people live in a particular neighborhood, or sometimes they would like to find a neighborhood with children or maybe a neighborhood where there are not many children.  Also they might ask which is the safest area in which to live.

You may be surprised to discover that under Federal and State Fair Housing Laws Realtors are prohibited from answering those very questions.  We are not allowed to discuss matters of race, color, religion, national origion, sex, disabilities, familial status or elderliness.  Any discussion of such topics could subject the agent, client or customer to an accusation of violating Fair Housing Laws.  In addition, recommending a particular school system or neighborhood can be construed to be steering.  We can search for homes for you by criteria such as price, square footage, acreage,  distance from town, amenities etc.

Of course you still want to be able to find out the answers to these other questions before you decide on the best location for your Charlottesville Virginia horse farm.  Listed below are a list of websites where you can find out the answers to those questions that your Realtor cannot legally answer.

Relocation information:

• INFO/US Census demographics
• Lead Paint Information
• Radon Information
• VA State Police Sex Offender Registry (Megan's Law)
• Albemarle County Crime Statistics  Albemarle County – 434 296-5807
• Charlottesville Crime Statistics  Charlottesville 434 970-3274
• Albemarle County Schools  434 296-5881
• Charlottesville Schools  434 970-3274
• Greene County Schools  434 985-5254
• Fluvanna County Schools  434 589-8208
• Nelson County Schools  434 263-7100  

Contact

Pam Dent

, e-PRO, SRES, NHD, REALTOR®, Real Estate
III, Charlottesville, Virginia at 434
960-0161 to buy a property in the following areas in Central Virginia: Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Keswick, Glenmore,
Ivy, Crozet, Earlysville, Free Union, Cismont, Scottsville, Fluvanna County,
Troy, Palmyra, Lake Monticello, Louisa County, Louisa, Mineral, Spring Creek,
Orange County, Gordonsville, Orange, Barboursville, Greene County,
Ruckersville.

View all of the Charlottesville Virginia
homes for sale.

View my website Charlottesville Horse Farms
or visit my other blog Charlottesville
Real Estate Talk  for more information on

Charlottesville

Virginia

horse farms, homes, events and real estate. 

Copyright © 2009 by Pam Dent, all rights reserved "Relocating to a Charlottesville Virginia Horse Farm – Facts You Can Use".

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This post will be a compilation of market reports focusing on Central Virginia home sales during the month of March 2009.  If you are considering either buying or selling a home in one of these Central Virginia real estate markets, you will want to know the home sale statistics of that particular area.

Charlottesville Virginia Real Estate Market Report – March 2009

Albemarle County Real Estate Market Report – March 2009

Fluvanna county Real Estate Market Report – March 2009

Louisa County Real Estate Market Report – March 2009

Charlottesville Virginia Real Estate Market Report Condominiums – March 2009

View all of the Charlottesville Virginia
homes for sale.

View my website Charlottesville Horse Farms
or visit my blogs Charlottesville
Real Estate Talk and Charlottesville
Horse Farms and Country Homes for more information on

Charlottesville

Virginia

horse farms, homes, events and real estate. 

Copyright © 2009 by Pam Dent, all rights reserved, "Central Virginia Real Estate Market Reports – March 2009".

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This post will share my 8 top ways to get ready for spring on a Virginia horse farm.

Each season of the year brings its own particular set of chores to anyone who has a Virginia horse farm.  While the rest of the Charlottesville community is busy spring cleaning their homes, Virginia horse property owners are doing a little spring cleaning of their own.  I will list the main items on my spring to do list for my Charlottesville Virginia horse farm.  If you have additional items that are musts on your equestrian property, please share them with us.

1. Spring Vaccinations – On any Charlottesville Virginia horse farm the first priority is the horses.  Like most horse owners I vaccinate my horses in the spring and the fall.  There are some shots that are only given once a year and others are given more often.  Also certain shots such as the Potomac horse fever vaccination are most effective when given in a certain season.  Chaec with your veterinarian to set up a vaccination program to suit your horses.
2. Take ponies and easy keepers off of the lush pastures.  Rich spring grass can be harmful for ponies and overweight horses.  Too rich pasture can cause certain horses to "founder" which is a potentially life threatening disease.  Prevention is key.  Either removing at risk equines to paddocks with less grass or limiting their turnout time is important.
3. Spring can be a good time to fertilize and seed your fields.  Your extension agent will be able to assess your pastures and help you determine the best plan to maintain them.
4. If you did not service your tractor and bushhog in the fall, now is the time to perform this maintainance.  Having this equiptment in prime working order is crucial with all of the mowing that you will be doing throughout the growing season on your Charlottesville Virginia horse farm.
5. Now is the time to send off your horse blankets to be washed and repaired.  Then when they come back they will be ready to be stored for the remainder of the summer until they are needed in the fall.
6. Get out turnout sheets, stable sheets, and fly scrims.  While it is not cold enough to need heavy blankets anymore, we are still seeing cool nights and some cool days.  This is the perfect weather for sheets.
7. Get the fans out of storage and put them on the stalls.  Make sure that all are in working order and that you have enough for each horse.  It seems like box fans don't have a very long working life in the environment of a stable, so it is a good idea to have several extra.
8. Plant Flowers – This is my favorite task.  My barn always has whiskey barrels of flowers out front, hanging baskets on the shed row and window baskets on the office windows.  I love picking out combinations of annuals for these planters to dress up my barn.

Once I am finished with all of these tasks, I know that my Virginia horse farm is ready for spring.  Now its time to ride, train horses and focus on this year's show season.  Happy riding!

Virginia Horse Farms In The Spring Real Estate Market

So You're Selling Your Virginia Horse Farm

Contact

Pam Dent

, e-PRO, SRES, NHD, REALTOR®, Real Estate
III, Charlottesville, Virginia at 434
960-0161 to buy a property in the following areas in Central Virginia: Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Keswick, Glenmore,
Ivy, Crozet, Earlysville, Free Union, Cismont, Scottsville, Fluvanna County,
Troy, Palmyra, Lake Monticello, Louisa County, Louisa, Mineral, Spring Creek,
Orange County, Gordonsville, Orange, Barboursville, Greene County,
Ruckersville.

View all of the Charlottesville Virginia
homes for sale.

View my website Charlottesville Horse Farms
or visit my blogs Charlottesville
Real Estate Talk and Charlottesville
Horse Farms and Country Homes for more information on

Charlottesville

Virginia

horse farms, homes, events and real estate. 

Copyright © 2009 by Pam Dent, all rights reserved, "My Top 8 Ways To Get Ready For Spring On A Virginia Horse Farm".

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From the beginning of my career in real estate I have had the tagline "Jump into Greener Pastures".

Charlottesville Virginia is an area of rolling hills, mountain views and green pastures making it the perfect area in which to buy a Virginia horse farm or country home.  Any time that you are considering selling your existing horse property or country home and searching for a new place to live you are looking for someplace that better suits you changing needs, in other words a move to greener pastures.

This blog is about everything involved with Virginia horse farms and Virginia country life that makes the Central Virginia horse country an area with the perfect greener pasture for you to move to.

Contact

Pam Dent

, e-PRO, SRES, NHD, REALTOR®, Real Estate
III, Charlottesville, Virginia at 434
960-0161 to buy a property in the following areas in Central Virginia: Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Keswick, Glenmore,
Ivy, Crozet, Earlysville, Free Union, Cismont, Scottsville, Fluvanna County,
Troy, Palmyra, Lake Monticello, Louisa County, Louisa, Mineral, Spring Creek,
Orange County, Gordonsville, Orange, Barboursville, Greene County,
Ruckersville.

View all of the Charlottesville Virginia
homes for sale.

View my website Charlottesville Horse Farms
or visit my blogs Charlottesville
Real Estate Talk and Charlottesville
Horse Farms and Country Homes for more information on

Charlottesville

Virginia

horse farms, homes, events and real estate. 

Copyright © 2009 by Pam Dent, all rights reserved, "Jump into Greener Pastures".

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